Gilberto Hochman

Biography

Gilberto Hochman earned a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in 1982 and a master’s and PhD in Political Science from the Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ) in 1990 and 1996. He was a doctoral fellow at Boston College in 1994. He has been a researcher with the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz Research Department since February 1987 and professor with PPGHCS since its creation in 2001. He holds a CNPq Research Fellowship, level 2. He was formerly co-editor of the History and Health Collection and the Classics and Sources Series, both published by Editora Fiocruz, and has been a science editor for Editora Fiocruz since January 2011. He is an associate editor of História, Ciências, Saúde—Manguinhos and assistant editor of Revista Ciência e Saúde Coletiva (ABRASCO). His research and teaching interests include social policy from a historical perspective; the history of global health; the history of public health; and health, disease, and poverty in Brazilian social thought. He is currently investigating international programs and social policy in Brazil; the relations between health, democracy, and development; and the mapping of the rural in Brazilian social thought.

Research Interest

health policies, institutions, campaigns, and initiatives in Brazil; history of international relations and diplomacy in health; history of the relationship between poverty, disease, and development in Brazilian social and political thought.